Benjamin Wilson

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Affiliations

• Represented one of the largest public academic health systems in the United States in the acquisition of a hospital, and with multiple joint ventures, including cancer centers and ambulatory surgery centers.
• Represented a large public academic medical center in connection with restructuring and ultimately unwinding a long-standing affiliation.
• Advised a large, multistate academic medical center in its acquisition of multiple hospitals and affiliated physician practices in the bankruptcy of a large for-profit hospital operator.
• Represented a leading dental benefits provider in its $2.5 billion sale to a global financial services company.
• Represented the nonprofit parent company of a major dental benefits provider in the sale of a minority interest in the benefits provider to a private equity firm. 
• Represented a diversified Kentucky health system in connection with restating its pediatric academic and clinical affiliations with a prominent public university, as well as acquiring a pediatric faculty practice operated by the university, and developing a comprehensive research collaboration agreement with the university and its affiliates.
• Represented multiple national senior living enterprises in the acquisitions of communities.
• Represented a national health insurance and delivery system in the sale of a minority equity investment to a private equity investor.
• Advised several human service organizations in acquisitions of businesses and properties in bankruptcy.
• Represented a private equity sponsor in the sale of a nationwide pharmacy services company.

Technology

• Advised a “Top 10” academic medical center in establishing a platform for developing and commercializing generative AI tools for health systems.
• Counseled multiple leading academic medical centers and health systems in establishing venture incubators and accelerators, independently or as joint ventures with multiple institutions. 
• Represented multiple health systems and physician enterprises in establishing nationwide telehealth platforms.
• Advised several clinical laboratories and provider platforms in establishing nationwide direct-to-consumer product offerings.

Value-Based Care and Managed Care Organizations

• Counseled health care providers, health plans, and health care ventures in establishing value-based payment structures and managing associated licensing and regulatory requirements.
• Represented a health center in establishing a clinically integrated behavioral health network for participating in Medicaid value-based care models.
• Advised a consortium of behavioral health and human services organizations in establishing a clinically integrated network in anticipation of Medicaid program restructuring.
• Represented a leading academic medical center in its negotiations and disputes with payors.
• Advised a health insurer with respect to the sale of a Medicare Advantage plan.
• Represented a health insurer in a novel financing and data-sharing transaction with a national research foundation.

Financing

• Advised a leading academic medical center on a novel financing structure that included the securitization of Medicaid supplemental funds.
• Represented health systems and other nonprofit organizations in or near default in negotiating consents and workouts with lenders and bond insurers.
• Represented health systems, universities, and other institutions as borrowers’ counsel, handling substantially all financing matters.
• Structured and restructured obligated groups and master indentures for multiple health systems.
• Served as underwriters’ counsel for taxable and tax-exempt public offerings, and as bond counsel for public and private issuances.

Medicare and Medicaid

• Represented health care providers in appeals and administrative hearings relating to alleged Medicare and Medicaid overpayments.
• Counseled several of the nation’s leading children’s hospitals on the provider-based rules, rules relating to co-location of hospital facilities, and rules relating to sharing of hospital space.
• Advised an academic medical center with respect to compliance with federal and state rules relating to intergovernmental transfers and Medicaid supplemental funding.

Clinical Laboratories

• Regularly advised clinical laboratories with respect to licensing, certification, reimbursement, and FDA compliance.
• Advised a leading multistate health system in evaluating and redesigning its network of laboratories for hospital, physician group, and outreach testing.
• Represented a national independent laboratory in multiple, high-stakes Medicare and Medicaid appeals, including proceedings before administrative law judges and related litigation.
• Counseled a leading research institute in establishing a clinical laboratory.